Advanced Camera Animation
This Skill Builder assists those who make animations of parts or assemblies. It provides the most straightforward way to animate cameras in Autodesk Inventor 2009.

Featured Member Profile: Rob Singlehurst Autodesk Manufacturing Community member Rob Singlehurst is the sole Design Engineer/Designer for a manufacturing company that produces irrigation equipment primarily for the agricultural industry. Find out why he feels Skeletal modeling is by far the most powerful feature of Inventor.

New addition to Labs (Inventor iMap) Have you ever needed to examine your assembly structure to better understand the various relationships or constraints? Autodesk released a new tool called iMap that installs on Inventor 2009 and is activated in an assembly by right clicking and selecting Constraint iMap or Skeleton iMap from the menu.

AU 2008 - Mark Your Calendar Now
Mark your calendar now – AU is coming up the first week of December. You won’t want to miss this year’s event! Registration and class info will be available on AU Online in August. But we’ll be spilling the beans on classes, labs, and special events here on the Manufacturing Community starting next week.

Vault and Inventor 2009 Integration
Read this tutorial by Brian Schanen to learn some of the quality-of-life improvements made possible through a combined effort from the Inventor and Data Management teams. Sometimes it’s the little things that make a huge difference.